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Friday, June 12, 2009

Can you believe that we spent a week in Palm Springs, CA and I'm still posting photos from that trip to the desert? Sure enough, this is the Gambel's quail. You can hear him call, ru-ear, ru-ear, in the background of my blue sky tutorial.

I was going to ask an impertinent question - why Gambel's and not Calif? But one of your birds clearly shows the dark patch on the lower belly - range maps don't show them overlapping, and then I realized that Palm Springs in inland. Probably some overlap. You made me pay attention to a number of factors. Loved seeing the Gambel's when I was in AZ in Jan.

'zackly Chris, that's the Gambel's. There is a slight difference in the face, too. I though it was a California Quail also at first. I had to throw out some video because I was yapping away about the California Quail that I was following up a dry wash. When I got into the "dark room"...oops! I've noticed that the Black-tailed Gnatcatcher isn't supposed to be in Palm Springs either according to the Sibley map, and I caught them with youngsters. Oh well, they have wings, they can go where ever they want! I'll post a female California quail tomorrow. I think it has a male's face in the picture.

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